ornaments of the altar, in order to save the college the cost of buying them again if it should please the sovereign to change the established religion and revert to the ancient creed of the country. This circumstance was discovered in 1572, when, on a commission to that effect issued by Dr. Edwin Sandys, bishop of London, Dr. Byng, master of Clare Hall, and vice-chancellor of the University, ordered a search to be made at the lodge of the master of Caius, and found there a considerable depôt of articles such as those above alluded to. During the short interval that occurred between his

resigning the mastership to Dr.

Legge and his death,

he resided in the rooms over the Gate of Virtue and

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Wisdom. He died in London, whither he had gone on business, July 29th, 1573.

The executors of Dr. Caius were ordered to lay out £100 in the purchase of lands to be settled on the college, and he left instructions in his will that his fellowships and scholarships should be appropriated to the diocese and city of Norwich. According to his will, his body was deposited in a vault made by his desire about two months before his decease, on the northern side of the chapel towards the east end, and under the altar of the Virgin Mary; but in 1637, when the chapel was enlarged, the tomb was placed high up in the northern wall, where it is now fixed.* The inscription is at once worthy of the man, and expressive of the dignified simplicity of his life: "FUI CAIUS." The words "vivit post funera virtus" run round the canopy of the tomb.

During the period that Dr. Caius was master of this college, Queen Elizabeth, with all her court, came to visit the University in 1564. Her majesty lodged at King's College, and her maids of honour and physicians at Caius College. About this period, too, Caius obtained from the crown a privilege for his college of taking every year the bodies of two malefactors for purposes of dissection, and without any control; and he left the annual sum of £1 8s. 6d. for the expenses of their dissection. Whether this privilege was ever acted on to any great extent is very doubtful. Dr. Caius, and Dr. Perne,

* When his vault was opened in 1719, the remains of this eminent man were found in an unusually good state of preservation, and, according to a college tradition, a picture was taken of the body at that period, which is now in the combination room.

master of Peterhouse, were the only two heads of houses not ejected at the accession of Elizabeth. Dr. Caius probably owed this favour to the powerful friends he had about the court. The work which he has left on the History and Antiquity of the University is full of valuable information, to which Fuller and later historians have been under considerable obligations.

A contemporary of Dr. Caius, and a benefactor to this college, of which he was fellow and president, was Dr. Thomas Wendie, or Wendy, who, like the founder, had the honour of being one of the physicians of the crown under Henry VIII. and the three succeeding monarchs. He was one of the visitors of the University under Edward VI. and also under Queen Elizabeth. He left funds for founding a fellowship, and his name shed much lustre on the society as long as he lived. Another benefactor to the house was also a contemporary and friend of Caius and Wendie, Dr. Legge, who succeeded the former in the government of the college. At his death he bequeathed property for building the eastern side of the court in front of St. Michael's Church, or the portion of the college visible in Trinity Street.

A lady, named Frankland, whose parents had already founded four scholarships in this college, gave to the society, soon after this period, several houses in London, besides plate, and £1600 in ready money, a large sum in those days. With this a landed estate in Cambridgeshire was purchased, and the income arising from it was devoted to the maintenance of six fellows, twelve scholars, a Hebrew lecturer, and a chaplain. Dr. Branthwait, a fellow of Emmanuel College, and one of the translators

of the Bible, succeeded Dr. Legge in the mastership. At his death, in 1618, he left a valuable library to the society; and, three years after, his executor conveyed to it some landed property at Wigenhall in Norfolk, then worth £26 13s. 4d. per annum, for founding four scholarships and for other minor purposes.

While Dr. Branthwait was master, the senior fellow of the college, Stephen Perse, M.D., a man of singular munificence, died in 1615, and bequeathed £ 5000 to the house for various purposes. With this handsome legacy the college purchased the manor of Fratinghall in Bassingbourn in the county of Cambridge, then the property of Sir Thomas Bendish. According to the donor's will there was founded with this money the Free School in Free School Lane, situated on the ground reserved to Gonville Hall, after the transferring of that society from its original to its new situation. A school-house was

built large enough to hold a hundred boys, and to accommodate a master and usher.* Adjoining the schoolhouse were erected out of the same money the six almshouses which still bear Perse's name. In the college itself six scholarships were founded, with preference to youths educated at the Free School, and six fellowships with preference to the scholars. Dr. Perse left a further sum of £500 for building the northern side of the court towards Trinity Street, adjoining the edifice erected by Dr. Legge's bequest. This munificent benefactor was buried in the college chapel, where there is a large monument erected to his memory. Dr. Gostlin, who was next

* When the splendid collections of Lord Fitzwilliam were left to the University, an arrangement was made with Caius College for placing them in the school-house until the museum should be built.